Now manufacturers offer very high-quality, high-yielding tomato varieties that are self-pollinating. Self-pollinating varieties are those tomatoes that contain male and female stamens in their inflorescences. Thanks to this, you can grow them right at home, on the porch, on balconies, and not just in the garden. In addition, such tomatoes always produce a bountiful harvest, have strong immunity and are not afraid of any weather conditions. It is necessary to study how to choose self-pollinating and high-yielding tomato seeds for the greenhouse, and what to do so that they produce a lot of fruit.
What to pay attention to when choosing seeds
Summer residents usually choose tomatoes based on some important criteria. They are different, each variety has its own taste, purpose and amount of harvest.
Basic requirements for seeds that experienced gardeners usually pay attention to:
- Immunity and resistance to various tomato diseases.
- Abundant harvest. Some varieties are not designed for this.
- Why tomatoes are grown: they are used in salad form, for cutting, pickled or salted, to make healthy tomato juice.
- Taste: tomatoes can be sour, sweet, sour-sweet, bitter.
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Tomatoes are also divided into varieties:
- Low or tall bushes;
- Large fruits, medium weight and small mini ones;
- For greenhouses or open ground;
- Shrubs with limited growing point or not;
- The taste is tomato or fruity;
- Color. There are different colors and shades: red, green, yellow, even black;
- Early, middle or late.
If a summer resident is in doubt about choosing self-pollinating varieties, then you can study a lot of useful information about them on the Internet. Since almost all of them have excellent disease resistance, they are not afraid of temperature fluctuations, frequent spontaneous weather changes, they bring an excellent harvest, and are pollinated naturally.
Early ripe tomatoes
Self-pollinating tomato seeds for greenhouses and open ground are divided into several groups. Among them we can distinguish early and mid-season. Early varieties of tomatoes produce fruit already on the eightieth day after germination. You can try them already in mid-summer. They are not large in size, round, regular in shape, smooth.
Let's give examples.
Tomato Bear in the North.The fruits are sweet, their weight reaches up to 150 grams, and they are red. All the branches turn red together. They don’t have time to get over the disease because they ripen very early.
Amber tomato has a bright yellow color. The bushes are low. The fruits are eaten fresh or canned. They taste excellent.
The Joy of Summer variety is a bright red tomato with a rich taste and aroma. The bush is low, no more than 50 centimeters. The taste is sweet and sour. Purpose – fresh food or canned food. Ideal for sale, do not crack, give a high yield.
Tomato Snow Tale. Ripens three months after seed germination. The bushes are low growing. The tomatoes are even, smooth, round. Weight up to 100 grams, small. The bushes are covered, the yield is high. They have excellent immunity and are not afraid of cold weather. You can preserve it whole, cut it into salads, cook pastas and sauces.
Mid-season tomatoes
Mid-season tomato varieties are those that ripen no earlier than three and a half months after the seeds hatch. Those grown in open soil ripen later than those grown in greenhouses.
Typhoon. It has a branched stem, dark green foliage, and strong immunity. The fruits are small, up to 100 grams. They are stored for a long time and tolerate transportation well. Excellent for canning.
Dina variety. Low-growing, produce abundant yields. The fruits can weigh up to 170 grams. Yellow color, round shape. The taste is sweet. You can can it and make fresh salads.
Tomato Semko-Sinbad F1. Low bushes with erect stems. Ripe fruits are dark in color. Rich tomato taste. Immunity to fungal diseases.
Friend F1. Very high yield. Can be grown for sale and do not crack during transportation. The fruits are round, slightly ribbed at the base. Red color.Weight up to 100 grams, not very large. The taste is sweet and sour. The bushes are low. It has strong immunity and is easy to care for.
The Verlioka variety is also self-fertile. Can be grown in open space. They can lie in the cellar for a long time, tomatoes are well transported. The bushes grow up to one and a half meters. Taste and yield are excellent.
Ilyich is famous for its bright orange fruits. The bush is tall and needs to be tied up. One bush brings more than six kilograms of tomatoes. The fruits can weigh up to 170 grams. You can salt and marinate. They get sick very little during the entire growth period.
List of the best short and tall
Low growing tomatoes for greenhouses or for open ground with the function of self-pollination, they are often bred directly on balconies, loggias, on the porch, in pots. Names of varieties: Lady, Riddle, Ballerina, Eleanor, Seagull, Asteroid. The fruits are medium-sized, of various shapes. Basically everything is sweet and sour in taste, the yield is high.
Tomato varieties for greenhouses or open spaces with rather tall bushes are Scarlet Mustang, tomato Intuition, Mushroom Basket, Midas, Da Barao, Honey Spas, Donna Rosa, Pink Tsar and others. The fruits are mostly large, ripen almost until frost, and have excellent immunity. Each of the listed tomatoes is self-pollinating, which is beneficial for improving the quality of the crop.
Large and small fruits
Self-pollinating tomatoes, which are grown for open ground or for greenhouses, come in different sizes. It all depends on the tastes of summer residents.
Large varieties have a sweet taste, weight up to 500 grams, and tall bushes. They are meaty and juicy. They are grown mainly for fresh food. This is Monomakh's Cap, Chernomor, tomato gardener's dream, variety Cardinal, Queen of the Market and others.
Small varieties are ideal for pickling; they have thick skin and a sweet, rich taste. Their weight ranges from 20 to 100 grams. These are Aladdin's Lamp, Sugar Plum, Cherry, Truffle, Italy, Honey Drop, Plum, Picket and others.
Caring for tomatoes that pollinate themselves
Tomatoes with self-pollinating characteristics, created for open ground or a greenhouse, require standard care. It differs little from caring for ordinary tomatoes.
- Provide constant high-quality watering with warm water.
- Ventilate greenhouses to regulate humidity levels.
- Remove weeds, loosen the soil, mulch.
- Fertilizer application according to schedule.
If self-pollination is weak, you can help the tomatoes artificially. You can use a brush to gently transfer the pollen yourself to the pistil of the flower. Or blow with a fan and shake the branches well. Attract butterflies, bees, wasps to the garden. They are valuable helpers.
There are quite a lot of tomato varieties with natural self-pollination. Among this diversity, every summer resident will be able to choose something for himself in accordance with his capabilities, conditions and needs. Have a good harvest!
